On a quiet Sunday afternoon the last thing you ought to expect is to
become embroiled in yet another UFO mystery.Well, unless you are me that is.

In February, 2004, I answered the telephone to find it was Squadron Leader
“Colin Tarr”, who had been an associate of Air Vice Marshall Sir Victor Goddard
and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Peter Hill-Norton, and knew as much about the AOP
Bureau as I did –and then some. I had never met Tarr nor spoken to him but he
knew all the case reports we had sent to the Ministry of Defence as well as
about reports that never got submitted
officially.When he initially contacted
me I had thought it a hoax but he’d proven his connections easily.For that reason when he asked “Fancy hearing
something interesting?” I was interested but replied “I am retired now,you
know” which got a loud laugh followed by “No such thing, old boy!”

I was told that something unusual had happened in 1999 near to a place
called Gatton, in Shropshire.Some rough
details were given but I pointed out that what I was being told amounted to not
much at all.“Wait a day or so and
you’ll be contacted by a field officer –he’ll give you the details.”

Surprisingly, the person who contacted me I already knew so it wasn’t
long before I had all the pieces.

Around September 1999*, at approximately 15:15 hours and in good, clear
daylight, a large number of observers including hill-walkers, horse-riders and
botanist Nora Hill, saw a low-level flying discoidal object.Walkers on Stiper Stones,were able to look
down at the object as it passed and reported that the top of it looked “like
mother of pearl.”Colouration –possibly
markings?—were reported.The object was
seen to land “heavily” and remained on the ground for some 6-7 minutes before
ascending into the air and flying off.

Looking at the information later supplied to me helped to conclude that
there may have been a strong electro-magnetic field present because particles
kicked up by the object created a circle around it.

This would just have been another “UFO landing” had it not been for what
happened next.A local RAF man had
mentioned that a team had been to the area to check things out and talk to some
witnesses.The RAF man immediately asked
the Field Officer not to mention
this, however, when another officer mentioned the team it was considered an “open
fact”.

The Field Officer contacted the base in question –MoD Boscombe Down. The
MoD Boscombe Down is an aircraft testing site located south of Amesbury,
Wiltshire. And it is run and managed by QinetiQ; the company created as part of
the break-up of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in 2001 by the UK
Ministry of Defence. It is the home of the Empire Test Pilots' School.

At the time of the Gatton landing it was known as RAF Boscombe Down and
since 1939 had evaluated aircraft for the British armed forces and a lot
more.The Field Officer identified
himself and requested confirmation that a team had been sent to
Shropshire.There was a delay as someone
else was passed on to field the call.This personasked a few
questions and then stated: “We don’t just send people out anywhere you
know.We are a busy establishment and I
can’t recall anyone mentioning Gatton.”After an apology for not being able to help the conversation ended.

The Field Officer told me that it had been very interesting because:”I
never once mentioned Gatton –just an incident in Shropshire!”Made me wonder.

But then came the task of talking to people.For this the Field Officer called on a well
known local man who had worked with Customs and Excise as well as the police
and passed on local UFO reports, James Green.While the Field Officer was talking to Mr. Green, a warden responsible
for the area in question, the phone rang.The caller identified himself as “Dr. David Clark, Sheffield University”
–as it was a speaker phone the Field Officer confirmed this.Mr. Green was asked whether he could
investigate the incident and pass all thedata along to an address [a Post Office Box as it turned out]?Mr. Green agreed, though he was suspicious as
‘Dr. Clark’ had mentioned knowing that he’d visited the site.

The RAF team who had visited the site were reported to Mr. Green who had
not been contacted and vehicles had crossed land without permission.A Wing Commander who would not give his name
but claimed to be from the Flight Investigation Unit, Boscombe Down, denied Mr.
Green access to the area and stated that it was “for public safety”.

Green, and others, watched as coverall suited men began sanitising the
area; picking up anything that was not going into “odd looking vacuum cleaner
style devices”.A couple of other men
were using devices that could not be clearly seen.Site integrity was maintained until they had
finished and with a “thank you” they drove off.

All of this was duly noted down.The odd thing was that the object, according to all the witnesses, was far
too small to have been manned.

When I later spoke to Dr. David Clark, at Sheffield University, he was
brief and to the point: he had never
heard of the Gatton incident and had certainly not contacted Mr. Green.That was that.

Incidentally,there is no one else based at
Sheffield University called “Clark”/”Clarke” with an interest in UFOs.A request had been placed in with the report
Mr. Green sent to the address given which stated that there was “something”
that he didn’t want to put into writing so could he meet Dr. Clark?

He never received a response.

We could all speculate on who the caller might have been but it really
was not important to the incident.I
checked around, the Field Officer checked around and even Mr. Green tried his
bit but we all reached a dead-end.One
UFO group did claim that they were told “small bodies were removed and flown
off in a helicopter” but this was pure fantasy.

To my mind, once everything had been collated, it was quite clear what had come down in Gatton and then
flown away.A Remotely Piloted Vehicle
[RPV].The size and details seemed right
and similar devices had been tested for assessment as battlefield intelligence
gatherers.This was probably a far more
up-to-date device than the one that created a huge UFO stir when it was sighted
by a trainee pilot and instructor over Blackbush,Hampshire in the 1980s: that device
had originated at Boscombe Down.

I sent everything to Squadron Leader Tarr and washed my hands of the
whole affair.Why had I been contacted
to look into a “possible UFO incident” if it was known from the start what the
object was?To confuse the issue –or to
find out whether anyone had spotted something that might give a clue to why it
temporarily landed?

One thing I learnt with the AOP Bureau was that sometimes we were given
leads that led to non-UFO events and the data we gathered was obviously useful
to someone.So, if you read of a “UFO
crash” in 1999, at Gatton,Shropshire, you know what it really was!

*It
has been requested,for a specific reason,that the exact date is not given and I
have agreed.

NB:sadly,since writing this
chapter I have heard that Mr. Green has passed away.

The following photographs were taken on a hot sunny day in July 2010. The location was Purdown, Lockleaze, Bristol, from which you can see most of the City. The photographer and his partner were not the only ones present -so was I!

The photographer (DMH) shouted "I can't believe what I just saw -I think I got it on the camera!" He then pointed out where the objects had come from and took a photograph.

I had been distracted at the time but I can make it clear that absolutely NO FAKERY was involved.

I waited to see whether the images showed anything and soon received this one:

And then I got an excited call about a figure in the window of the building the objects had shot from. Look at the second window where you can see what appears to be a "Grey" type entity.

I can swear on any number of Bibles that these are NOT faked. They show exactly what was seen at the time and the witness CAN be trusted. Had I not been distracted with my own suddenly malfunctioning camera (a few hundred yards away) I might have seen or photographed the same things.

I tried to get in touch with former official contacts about this but was informed that none were now at the Ministry of Defence and when I asked whether I should forward a report and copies of the images was told:"No need. We are no longer interested in UFOs. You could try a civilian UFO group."

Up-dated 2011 edition includes section on sarcoptic
mange in foxes and treatment plus a list of wildlife sanctuaries and
rescue centres in the UK.

By the 1700s the British fox was on the verge of extinction and about to
follow the bear and wolf having been hunted for sport for centuries.

The answer was to import thousands of foxes per year for sport. But
foxes kept dying out so jackals were tried. Some were caught, some
escaped. Even wolves and coyote were released for hunting.

The summation of over 30 years research reveals the damnable lie of
"pest control" hunting but also reveals the cruelty the animals were
subject to and how private menageries as well as travelling shows helped
provide the British and Irish countryside with some incredible events.

It is claimed
that,in April,1918,the British patrol vessel Coreopsis,out of Belfast, came across the German UB-85
submarine,on the surface and non-mobile.
The crew apparently abandoned the submarine and were all taken prisoner.
Obviously,the first thing the Royal Navy
officers wanted to know was why the
crew had not fled or offered any fight.

Captain Gunther
Krech’s explanation;they had been attacked by a sea serpent.

Krech is reported
to have told how the UB-85 had surfaced
to recharge its batteries and to allow the crew to have a smoke. It was while
doing this that a huge sea serpent climbed aboard. To say the least,the crew was
rather startled and began to discharge their firearms at the monster. This had little effect on the creature other
than to anger it and it then bit down on the forward gun –causing the sub to list side to side.

Captain Krech
feared that his vessel would take on water through the open hatch and
sink. So the crew continued to fire away
and this eventually caused the serpent
to slink back into the depths.

According to
Krech:

"This
beast had large eyes, set in a horny sort of skull. It

had
a small head, but with teeth that could be seen

glistening
in the moonlight."

Krech’s rank was Kapitän
Leutenant and,yes,there was indeed a UB-85 but there seems to be a lot of
confusion so I’ll explain. The SM U-85,was a Type Mittel U submarine launched
in 1916 and that served in the First World War until sunk on 12 March
1917. That clear? Good.
Now,there was an SM UB-85 –a
Type UB III submarine launched in 1917 and sunk on 30 April 1918. Krech’s submarine was the latter.

However,there was
no monster. Official German sites
dealing with the First World War and submarines tell the same story as the
official log of the Coreopsis:

"(UB-85)
Hit by gunfire of Coreopsis while attempting to dive.

Resurfaced
and abandoned by her crew at 5447N 0523W"

So,the crew were
taken off the submarine which was then sunk.
And let’s not get confused with
the submarine U-85 (1941) which was a Type VIIB submarine that served in
the Second World War until sunk on 14 April 1942.

No sea monster.

Above:a photograph widely
used on the internet and in one magazine as being of the UB-85. Two problems:[1] This is not a World War One type submarine.
[2] The submarine is flying the Swastika flag –making this clearly a
Second World War photograph! The source
of this confusion may be a specific site that had “no photographs of the U-85
or the monster so this photograph takes
its place”. You have to love the
internet for such hilarious stupidity!

And in
1934,Popular Mechanics [1] published a lengthy article on sea serpents and retold
the incident involving Captain [Baron] George Gunther von Forstner and his
submarine the U-28. In the article Baron
von Forstner tells how on the 30th July,1915, in the North sea,he had just torpedoed a British freighter
[Iberian –THS]. It was a sad and
regular occurrence during the Great War.
But what von Forstner reported then happened was not.

As the Iberian
began to sink it exploded just below the surface. This explosion caused a plume of debris to
fly high up into the air –including a creature
that resembled a 60-foot-long crocodilian. According to sources,according to
von Forstner the creature had
"…four limbs resembling large webbed feet, a long, pointed tail and
a head which also tapered to a point."

As it shot up into
the air the creature wriggled and twisted as if in pain before hitting the
water and sinking out of sight. No
photographs were taken though von Forstner and six other crew observed the
creature. One source claims that all the
men “agreed upon a drawing and entry in the log book”. The source also wonders whether the explosion
had killed a “living mososaur?”.

Above:In the background the
U-28 during World War One,commanded by von Forstner.

I think the writer
meant a member of the Mosasauridae. It
has been said that there were certain discreprancies in von Forstner’s story
some 18 years later. This is natural and
you can find discreprancies after a week,a month or even days –it is a
recognised problem with observers to events and one of the reasons why you
contact any witness as soon as possible after an event. Nothing untoward [2 & 3].

In the 1980s I was
told that von Forstner had drawn the
image described and that he stuck to his account the rest of his life. There are current attempts to contact the von
Forstner family to see whether any first hand record survives. So,one fake submarine attacked by monster
story and one….?

Saturday, 26 November 2011

The “Henacre Road Haunting” very briefly got
into the Press in 1990 [1 & 2].Apparently,Kim Jye and her children had moved into the 1960s first floor
flat in Henacre Road,
Bristol, sometime in 1988/1989
–the local council would not specify the exact date.By August,1990, a priest had been called in.

Kim Jye had
reported seeing the ghost of a man wearing dark trousers, white shirt and “with
an old-style bobbed haircut” on at least four occasions.But the 21 year-old was not the only
witness.Christopher, 3 years-old, had a
rather bad time of things in his bedroom.According to his mother: ”My little boy would not sleep in this
particular bedroom for at least seven months –he said a man was coming to get
me.”

The newspaper account didn’t make it quite
clear whether young Christopher was stating that he’d merely seen the ghostly
figure and felt it was ‘after him’ or his mother.

Whatever, Father Michael O’Regan, of Our Lady
of the Rosary, was called in and he performed a blessing ceremony.By July, however, the events at the flat had
driven Kim Jye and her three children to take refuge at her mother’s home, the
first blessing having failed.Father
O’Regan contacted Bristol City Council who took the alleged haunting
seriously.Mike Griffiths, a council
spokesman, told a reporter:-

“We
are taking it seriously.We are taking
it as a legitimate

problem,taking it on face
value,bearing in mind we have a

letter
from a man whose moral credence must be impeccable.”

Presumably the Jyes were moved.The council would not discuss the matter as
it concerned a tenant and they could give no information.So far I’ve not managed to track down Kim Jye
and there appears to have been no further disturbances at the flat –that I’ve
been told of.

The Parkside Hotel stands next door to the ITV
West TVstudios, Brislington,

Bristol.In the 1970s I had visited the hotel on a
number of social occasions, as I had been in the local newspapers regarding
other investigations at the time I was recognized by one staff member who
furtively asked me: ”Are you on an investigation here?”When I pointed out I was attending a function
the person in question clammed up and left.I later learned he was an assistant manager.

The twenty-two room hotel itself dates back to
1760 and was at one time a convent for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. In
1997 a Dutch TV crew stayed in the hotel to see whether they could film
anything.As far as I can find out they
never did.

But what was
being seen at the hotel?According to
Chris Romer of the Cheltenham Student Parapsychological Society Research Group
[CSPSRG], who had been one of the investigators to look into the goings on in
1996, quite a lot was happening.

There had been
reports of a ghostly nun walking across the restaurant by several witnesses.Of course, the nun ties in with the old
convent which, interestingly enough, some of the witnesses had not known about.

Then there was the
bar –and any number of jokes you can make out of ghosts seen in bars.Sounds had been heard and what was called a
“poltergeist” had moved glasses in the bar.However, as noted in the chapter on the Ghost of All Saints Church, this
was not what you could categorize as a poltergeist but rather a haunting in
which objects were moved.

According to Manager Rob Green, when I talked
to him in 1997; ”quite a few people who work at night have seen some odd
things.”Mr.Green suggested I contact
the CSPSRG as they were preparing a report.It was now Chris Romer who told me of events at the hotel while his team
was investigating.

A camera was set up in one particular room
with a bad reputation, apparently visitors had not stayed long.A male and female investigator were left to
keep the room under observation and the camera had, I was told,picked up a
vertical bar of red light that appeared above the bed.There was embarrassment over the next part of
the report; apparently the two observers felt “odd” and the next thing they
were engaged in frantic sexual activity!More the embarrassing because, apparently, neither was “very keen” on
the other.

There were also other manifestations and a
report/case file did exist.However,by
1998,Mr.Romer still had not been able to find out who had this document [3-5].

In 2005 there was a report of another ghost sighting
at the hotel by a staff member –this filtering through to me from a newspaper
reporter.The hotel has kept its mystery
tenants it seems.

But there are other little known ghosts in Bristol and some harken back to the siege of Bristol during the English
Civil War.

Having been born and raised in the St
Werburgh’s area of the city, I and other kids liked visiting the old bomb sites
in the early 1960s and especially the “haunted houses”.We also trekked regularly to Eastville Park and Stapleton Woods.Prior to his attack on Prince Rupert in the Civil War, Cromwell had
mustered his New Model Army in the area of the woods.I had heard, as a youngster of a ghost in the
woods but as none of the gang had ever seen it who cared?

A Roundhead figure was once seen quite
regularly;he would approach people as if to say something –but then walk right
through them.Had the Roundhead seen the
modern day walkers –and if he had,did they suddenly vanish in front of
him?I can find no record of the figure
being seen after the 1980s, quite odd.

My grand dad, Bill,being “Hanham born ‘n’
bred”, told me that a serving girl whose name had been Sally, lived on a farm
in the area and during the Civil War refused to tell the Roundheads where Royalists
were hiding.In an attempt to escape, Sally
got to the roof –it’s uncertain whether she jumped or was thrown or was simply
killed there.Her ghost has always been
seen on the roof though I have failed to discover which farm –if it still
exists.

Another spectre no
longer seen, I believe since the 1970s, is “The Starving Monk”.At a time when saying Mass was
illegal,priests often visited stately homes and were hidden in “priest hid holes” if the
authorities turned up.The ghost in
question was said to haunt Oldbury
Court and originated from a time when there was a
stately home in the area.

The monk was said to have been
hidden,forgotten and to have starved to death –a not very likely tale.But for a long time the monk was seen but modern
changes may not condusive to ghostly wanderings?

Another ghost I’ve heard very little of in
recent years was that of Jenkins Protheroe, aka: ”The Evil Dwarf
Highwayman”!Protheroe would beg for
money but if he didn’t get as much as he had expected he had a novel method of
getting more –he held up the person in question and robbed them.However, you can only get away with this
behaviour for a certain amount of time.Protheroe was captured and tried for his crimes.In 1783, at the top of Pembroke Road, Clifton,
Protheroe was hung and haunted the area –but no longer?

I’m still trying
to find out whether a German Luftwaffe aircraft did crash at the old Whitchurch Airport during World War Two.The area, now Hengrove Park,
has been undergoing a great deal of development in recent years and I’ve heard
of no sightings of a German pilot said to haunt the site.

Interestingly enough,the mid-1990s saw a rash
of ghost reports.At Mulberry
headquarters, Kilver Court,
Shepton Mallet, Somerset,
“something” was up-setting the security guards.Everyone was keeping tight-lipped but one security guard reported that
when he switched off all the lights they were suddenly turned on

again –this happening several times and “strange
things” happened but that was all we learned of the affair [6 & 7].

In 1995, another couple fled their council
home due to a ghost.Michaela Barber and
her partner, Shane, lived in a house in Leg Of Mutton Road, Wells, Somerset.Things would often vanish from where they had
been placed and were not seen again.On
one occasion, having left the house, the couple looked back and saw a curtain
very clearly lifted.No one living was in the house.

One morning, at 8.00 a.m., the couple fled
their home and swore never to return.Apparently, Michaela had found her five-months-old baby under his high-sided cot.A toy tv suddenly turned itself on.Again, tenant confidentiality meant the
council would not tell us where the couple were eventually moved to [8& 9].

But we note, again, this movement of objects
–andthat includes the baby.

The Royal
Clarence Hotel,
Bridgwater, Somerset,
was in the news, albeit a small column [10], in 1982.Why so little space was given to the incident
in question seems odd because the ghost
spoke to a member of staff.

A woman in white
had been seen many times over the years,several times outside a blocked off
door which used to lead to the minstrel’s gallery.Mrs Rita Walsh had worked in the hotel
kitchens since around 1977/1978 but had seen nothing odd.In December of 1982 this changed.

Mrs Walsh was working alone when she saw the
infamous woman in white move toward her.Mrs Walsh told a reporter:

“When
the woman approached,I tried to scream for the

night-porter,but
I just couldn’t get a word out.

“The ghost told me I should not be frightened
as she

would
not hurt me.She was so friendly that I
was

able
to ask her why she wasn’t resting,and she said

she
just couldn’t,then she disappeared.”

Just what do we make of this?A ghost actually speaking to the living without a so-called “medium”.

There are, of course, types of this phenomena
according to researchers.

The most common form of ghost appears to be
what might be called a “Crisis Apparition”.This is usually a “vision” or disembodied voice of someone under great
stress –at the point of death, for example.This vision/voice is seen or heard by someone close the person in
crisis.As we know nothing really about
the process of dying it is possible –possible—that
there may be some kind of telepathic link between the dying and loved
ones.In many cases, no doubt, these may
be self-induced visions of a dying loved one by a person.

The “Collective Apparition” where more than
one person sees a ghost.This can be at
a séance or some other locale.

The “Haunting Ghost”is where a ghost walks about, plays or looks
out of a window, is seen seated or going through some other mundane task.Here you could class the Parkside Hotel nun
or even the Royal
Clarence Hotel
woman in white.Some parapsychologists
feel a “psychic record” of a person may be “imprinted upon a place of tragic
death, a beloved garden spot or room.

Then we have the “Presence” where “something”
is most definitely felt but nothing
seen or heard.These reports may
indicate some form of electro magnetic or other phenomena creating a localised
effect felt by person present –such as in the “Luminous Chamber” case.

There are also the “One-Offs” –ghosts seen at
a location with no spectral history known to the witness,investigators or
others in the area.

“Poltergeists”
[angry/noisy spirits] have been recorded since at least the 12th century.Unexplained bangs, crashes, foul smells, sudden
cold spells in a house or place, inexplicable voices, objects appearing and
disappearing and even levitation of of victims are “symptoms”.Here we can place the Lamb Inn, ”Coonian
ghost”, theParkside Hotel and the
Leg Of Mutton Road events.Parapsychologists use the phrase Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis
[RSPK].‘Demons’, ’Satan’ and even
elementals have been blamed in these cases –but then so have adolescent girls/boys
who are seen as the “focus” in these cases.

In the Leg Of Mutton Road affair there was no
adolescent, only a baby.We are not
aware of an adolescent in the All Saints Church case either.

But that leaves us with the woman in white at
the Royal Clarence.Here ‘she’ knew Mrs.Watts could see her and was
alarmed but placated the witness by telling her no harm would befall her!When asked why ‘she’ was not resting, the
ghost responded to the question.

How –how—can
a dead person’s ghost walk around knowing
his/herself to be deceased and start up a brief conversation?The Royal Clarence case isn’t the first of
this type of “conversation” either.It
infers, rather strongly, that there is
life after death and in some cases, well, hundreds of cases, something has prevented the dearly
deceased from “passing on” –“finding eternal rest”.

This I simply find impossible to accept for so many reasons.Billions of people have lived and died on
this planet and “Heaven” must be suffering some severe over-crowding!One disaster after another adding thousands
upon thousands more to the ‘population’ –and what of dead animals?Of the highly intelligent dolphins?Is it just humans who go into an “after
life”?

Scientifically, I cannot accept that.So what is going on?The truth is that I will keep on investigating and, one day, hopefully I can have a
‘conversation’ with something like the woman in white!

Born in Bristol,England,6th
June,1957,Terry became interested in nature and wildlife. While attending Greenway Boys
School,the interest in
science and mysteries of nature increased resulting into several local investigations
of natural phenomena. At the same
time,having accidentally picked up a copy of Brinsley le poer Trench [later
Lord Clancarty] “The Flying Saucer Story”,Terry began studying UFO reports and
local sightings.

Between 1974-to date,Terry has acted as a wildlife
consultant to UK police
forces on exotic animals living in the UK,being a noted naturalist. Also in 1974,Terry set up the Bristol UFO
Investigation Team [BUFOIT],joined the British UFO Research Association
[BUFORA],covering much of the West of England as an investigator and Regional
Investigations Co-ordinator.

Circa 1976,Terry joined the oldest UK UFO group,the British
Flying Saucer Bureau [f.1952] and became an investigator,later Head of Research
& Investigation and also editor of the UFO News Bulletin.

In 1977,as an attempt to promote more scientific approach to
UFO investigation,Terry set up UFO International [see Sachs,M.,Encyclopaedia of
UFOs].

Having established contact with Lord Clancarty and Air Vice
Marshal Sir Victor Goddard [a former head of RAF Intelligence and outspoken UFO
believer],in 1977 Terry,along with late colleague Franklyn
A.Davin-Wilson,visited London for a meeting with Clancarty ,Goddard and others
having submitted a document calling for a National Aerospace Commission
[NaComm]. Hooper was asked to mount an
unofficial investigation into all aspects of the UFO phenomenon –a limited fund
for travelling and living expenses was agreed upon.

In January,1978,the Anomalous Observational Phenomena Bureau
[AOP B] began its work building up a data base on every aspect of UFOs
–historical cases,trace,physio and psychological,animal disturbance,EM cases
and much more.

Original members of the AOP B were:~

Graham F.N.Knewstub [deceased]

Dave Cowdy
[deceased]

Franklyn A.Davin-Wilson [deceased]

Terry Hooper

Between 1978-1984 there was much unofficial assistance given
to the Bureau by professional astronomers [some publicly sceptical],former
members of the Armed Forces,Air Ministry,Ministry of Defence as well as serving
members of the Armed Forces and Police Forces.
A network of UFO investigation & research groups was set up
including GUFOI&RG [Gloucestershire],Wessex UFO I&R Group [Somerset],Wiltshire UFO
I&R Team and so on.

Much of this cooperation continued well past the closing of
the Bureau in 1995,though Governmental changes in policy since then have
restricted any cooperation.

In 1984 a 2000 pages “British Report On Unidentified Flying
Objects [UFOs]” was completed. This was
later reduced to 1500pp on editing. Lord
Clancarty,Sir Victor Goddard and others,including members of the House Of Lords
UFO Study Group,stated that the Report was “…the closest thing the UK will ever
have to a Project Blue Book”.

Although copies went to the Ministry of Defence and Sir
Victor kindly passed copies on to former subordinates and ex-heads of RAF
Intelligence,private UFO groups and Ufologists condemned the Report without
even having seen the Summary offered.
The Report is currently being up-dated with more contemporary evidence
being added.

Terry edited the in-house AOP Bulletin which it is hoped
will re-appear in late 2006.

Apart from this work Terry has specialized,since 1974,on
Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Entity cases and provided the data for
BUFORA to contribute to Ted Bloecher’s HUM-CAT.
He has also written many articles on Ball Lightning,meteor-

ites,astronomy,CE-3Ks and Alien Entity cases as well as
reporting on UFO incidents

[of which he has investigated approx. 2000 since 1974].

Terry re-opened the AOP Bureau on 1st
January,2006 to continue the original work,aligned to no other groups or
investigators.

Current study includes cases involving non-humanoid
alien-entities associated with UFOs,video footage evidence and continued study
of “spooklight” phenomena.

Back in the 1970s/1980s was also a consultant for the
Kentucky UFO Investigators League,a member of the Society for the Investigation
of The Unexplained [SITU],of which he operated a UK branch –investigating the Dead
Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island and other incidents.

Terry also maintained links with Bigfoot/Sasquatch
researchers such as The Bay Area Group
[BAG],Bigfoot Investigation Team,Dmitri Bayanove,etc.. Terry maintains files on lake and sea creatures,ghosts
and most other unexplained or explained phenomena he has looked into –these
include ghosts and hauntings.

Important:Terry is
not a “Ufologist”,”Cryptozoologist” or any other type of “ist” –or
Fortean!

Terry has written two books encompassing UFOs,ghosts and the
paranormal,strange phenomena,mystery animals as well as the lost history of
gorillas imported into Europe ‘before their discovery’ - “Some Things Strange
& Sinister” and “Some More Things Strange & Sinister” another book
looking at mystery canids in the UK is due for release in February,2011.

Amongst technical papers he was a contributing researcher/author of:

Street-Perrott, F. A., Hooper T. and and Smith A.B. 2006. Exotic
cats in Britain: an historical perspective. In Proceedings of the
Eastern Cougar Conference 2004 (Tischendorf, J, McGinnis, H and Ropski, S
J, Eds.), The Eastern Cougar Foundation and the American Ecological
Research Institute, North Spring, West Virginia, 9-19.

Smith, A.B., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Hooper, T. 2006. A method
for grading sightings of non-native cats: application to South and West
Wales. In Proceedings of the Eastern Cougar Conference 2004
(Tischendorf, J., McGinnis, H. and Ropski, S.J., Eds.), The Eastern
Cougar Foundation and the American Ecological Research Institute, North
Spring, West Virginia, 102-121.